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Subject:Re: photos to line art conversions From:Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:21:32 +0000 (UTC)
Gene,
At this time, and because we'd be going from a jpg (raster) to line-art, I'd go with whatever I can get.
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 2:13 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
Older versions of the Corel suite used to have a separate program called
CorelTrace. Current versions put bitmap tracing in CorelDraw.
PhotoPaint is a raster-only program and does not output vectors.
Gene Kim-Eng
On 6/22/2016 8:38 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:
> We have need to convert various photos (jpg format) to line art for our operator manuals (heavy construction equipment). This will be ongoing and is not a set number of images.
> I have Corel PhotoPaint Version 8.0 on my (Windows XP) platform, but haven't found anything in it that can accomplish this.
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